It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been b...rought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with ...the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Y'know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar's eyebrow. But when... it comes to really important things we're as stupid as the caveman.... Like love. Makes the world go 'round, but what do we know about it? Is it a fact? Is it chemistry? Electricity?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We are all aware that speech, like chemistry, has a structure. There is a limited set of elements--vowels and consonants--and thes...e are combined to produce words which, in turn, compound into sentences.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

You are done for--a living dead man--not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides ...the "mystery" of life. Not for nothing is hatred still the best tonic ever discovered, for which any organism, however feeble, has a tolerance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

He bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops, as the sails of a ship bend to the wind. He represents con...tinuous hard labor, year in, year out, and small gains. He is a slow person, timed to Nature, and not to city watches. He takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry. Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »